Date |
Present. # |
Topic & Web Page |
Leaders |
Readings |
| Jan. 9 |
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Course Intro: Space and Place in Humanities |
Janz |
- Oakes, Timothy, “Place and the Paradox of Modernity,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87:3 (1997): 509-531.
- *Edward Casey, Preface, Getting Back Into Place. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, ix-xvii.
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| Jan. 16 |
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No Class – MLK Day |
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| Jan. 23 |
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Home and Hearth |
Janz |
- Place Entrance
- Heidegger, Martin, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper & Row, 1975: 145-161.
- Wise, J. McGregor, “Home: Territory and Identity” Cultural Studies 14:2 (2000): 295-310.
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| Jan. 30 |
1 |
Landscape and Garden |
Group Week 1 & Janz |
- Place Room 2
- Herrington 1, 2
- Verdi, Laura, “The Garden and the Scene of Power,” Space and Culture 7:4 (November 2004): 360-385.
- Alexander, C., “The Garden as Occasional Domestic Space,” Signs 27:3 (Spring 2002): 857-871.
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| Feb. 6 |
2 |
Urban and "Developed" Space |
Group Week 2 & Janz |
- Place Room 1
- Janz, Bruce. “Making a Scene and Dwelling in Place: Exhaustion at the Edges of Modes of Place-Making” Textual Studies in Canada. Will Garrett-Petts, Craig Saper & John Craig Freeman, guest eds., 2009. Also in Rhizomes 18 (Winter 2008) Will Garrett-Petts, Craig Saper & John Craig Freeman, guest eds.
- Allman, T. D. “The Theme-Parking, Megachurching, Franchising, Exurbing, McMansioning of American: How Walt Disney Changed Everything,” National Geographic 211:3 (March 2007): 96-115.
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| Feb. 13 |
3 |
Travel I |
Group Week 3 & Janz |
- Place Room 5
- Jamal, T. & K. Hollinshead, “Tourism and the forbidden zone: the underserved power of qualitative inquiry.” Tourism Management 22 (2001) 63-82.
- McCarthy, Jeffrey, “A Theory of Place in North American Mountaineering,” Philosophy & Geography 5:2 (2002): 179-194.
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| Feb. 20 |
4 |
Travel II |
Group Week 4 & Janz |
- Neimanis, Astrida, “Commuting Bodies Move, Creatively.” PhaenEx 3:2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 115-148.
- Bogue, Ronald, “Apology for Nomadology” Interventions 6:2 (2004): 169-179.
- Bauman, Zygmunt, “From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity.” Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay, eds., Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Sage Publications, 1996: 18-36.
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| Feb. 27 |
5 |
Travel III |
Group Week 5 & Janz |
- Place: Postscript + Talk
- Said, Edward, “Invention, Memory, Place,” Critical Inquiry 26 (Winter 2000): 175-192.
- Ortega, Mariana, “Exiled Space, In-Between Space: Existential Spatiality in Ana Mendieta’s Siluetas Series, Philosophy & Geography 7:1 (February 2004): 25-41.
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| March 5 |
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No Class – Midterm Break |
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| March 12 |
6 |
Travel IV |
Group Week 6 & Janz |
- Place Room 7
- Featherstone, Mike. "The Flaneur, the Ceity and Virtual Public Life," Urban Studies 35:5-6 (1998): 909-925.
- Dubow, Jessica, “The Mobility of Thought: Reflections on Blanchot and Benjamin,” Interventions 6:2 (2004): 216-228.
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| March 19 |
7 |
Wilderness & Nature |
Group Week 7 & Janz |
- Herrington 3
- Ouderkirk, Wayne, “On Wilderness and People: A View from Mount Marcy.” Philosophy and Geography 6:1 (2003): 15-32.
- Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Environmental History 1:1 (Jan 1996): 7-28.
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| March 26 |
8 |
Places of the Past: Ruins, Memorials, Forgotten Places |
Group Week 8 & Janz |
- Place Room 4
- Herrington 4
- Donohoe, Janet, “Dwelling with Monuments.” Philosophy & Geography 5:2 (2002): 235-242.
- Marschall, Sabine, “Visualizing Memories: The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto.” Visual Anthropology 19 (2006): 145-169.
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| April 2 |
9 |
Non-Place & Pathologies of Place |
Group Week 9 & Janz |
- Place Room 8
- Herrington 5
- Merriman, Peter, “Driving Places: Marc Augé, Non-Places, and the Geographies of England’s M1 Motorway,” Theory Culture Society 21:4/5 (2004): 145-167.
- Janz, Bruce, "The Terror of the Place: Anxieties of Place and the Cultural Narrative of Terrorism," Ethics, Place & Environment 11:2 (June 2008): 191-203.
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| April 9 |
10 |
Virtual Space |
Group Week 10 & Janz |
- Place Room 3
- Herrington 6
- Driskell, Robyn & Larry Lyon, “Are Virtual Communities True Communities? Examining the Environments and Elements of Community,” City & Community 1:4 (December 2002): 373-390.
- Adams, Paul, "Cyberspace and Virtual Places," The Geographical Review 87:2 (April 1997): 155-71.
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| April 16 |
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Work in Progress Presentations |
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| April 23 |
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End of course |
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